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Slonik is a Postgres database driver for NodeJS and it's pretty awesome. You should check it out if you haven't already.

Crazy enough to host your own email, but don't know how to set up auto configuration for your mail clients (like Thunderbird)? If you haven't googled it yet, this post is for you.

If you're running on Hetzner, you might want to update your DNS settings to use some other resolvers. This can problem can manifest if you're trying to resolve DNS names that resolve to your own machines *from inside your own machines*.

A step by step guide on how to set up SES with Pulumi

A small exploration and guide (with repo) into exposing SSH to a container in a Pod over port 443 (which is normally used for HTTPS).

I finish up the benchmarking process, and share the results. If you want to find what I actually end up using, the answer is in here!

I describe in detail the YAML and Makefile scripts that power the fio and pgbench based tests that will run on every storage provider I managed to set up

I install even more storage providers -- this time OpenEBS cStor, Jiva, LocalPV hostPath, LocalPV ZFS and LINSTOR

I start installing storage plugins, this time Rook (Ceph) -- which takes a while -- and OpenEBS Mayastor. Read this if you want to read a feel-good underdog system administration story.

Part 1 of my second crack at benchmarking storage providers that scale from hobbyist to enterprise. In this post I go over the setup (the code isn't public just yet) of the dedicated servers I'll be using